Chapter 2
She hadn't been at work for 5 days. No one had seen her in 5 days. No one had heard from her in 5 days. Luke rang her cell phone continuously, but it was always switched off. He was starting to panic.
He knew she was angry at him that night and he knew she was upset, but this was unlike her. Just taking off without telling anyone like this. It was beginning to scare him.
He went over to her house every night, hoping to see her pulling into the driveway, with some kind of explanation of where she had been for the past few days. But unfortunately, he had no such luck. On the fifth night, he tried ringing her cell phone again. It was still switched off. He decided it was time. He wished he didn't have to call her, but if anybody would know where she was, it would be her. Even if she hated him too by now, if she knew where Lorelei was he needed to talk to her.
"Hello..." a sleepy voice said.
"Oh hey Rory. I'm sorry for waking you up..." Luke said shaking his head. He had forgotten how late it was.
"Luke? Is everything ok?" she asked concerned, instantly sounding more alert.
This is strange Luke thought to himself. He was so sure Rory would have been upset at him, just like her mother was.
"Luke..?" she asked again.
"Oh yeah sorry. I was just wondering if you've heard from your mother at all?"
"Mom? No not for a few days. I tried ringing yesterday but her cell was off and there was no one home." she paused, and Luke could hear her voice shift into panic mode. "Is she ok? Has something happened?"
"Um...I don't know exactly. We had a...uh.." Luke tried to choose his words carefully. "A bit of a disagreement, and I haven't heard from her in a few days. I was so sure she would have contacted you."
"No, no she hasn't. She just took off? What about Sookie, or the Inn?"
"No ones seen or heard from her..." Luke said sadly.
"Well I'll keep trying ok? Don't worry Luke, I'm sure she's fine." Rory said confidently, more for her own sake than his.
"Yeah ok, thanks Rory. I'll keep in touch ok?"
"Ok. Bye Luke."
Rory hung up the phone and laid back down in her bed. She picked up the phone again dialling her mothers cell. Still switched off. This was very strange. She knew her Mom and Luke were having a few little issues, but she also knew how much she loved Luke. Something pretty bad must have happened for her to do something like this. The last time she took off like this was...well their last road trip together...before she was meant to marry Max.
Rory sat straight up in bed, the phone falling out of her hands and onto the floor.
She knew exactly where her mother had gone.
The next morning, Rory was awake earlier than she usually was. She felt like she hardly slept at all last night. She just could not shut her brain off after Luke's worried phone call. During all her tossing and turning last night, she thought long and hard about what the best thing to do was. If her Mom had taken off without telling her, Sookie or Luke where she was going...she obviously didn't want to be found. But Rory also knew what her Mother was like sometimes, her thought processes. She was the most stubborn person she had ever met, and once she made up her mind about something it was often hard to sway her. Rory tossed and turned some more before hopping quickly out of bed and throwing on some clothes. She was the only one that might be able to talk some sense in to her.
Lorelei jumped as she felt someone's hand wrap around her waist. Her eyes fluttered open, and she realised that she was in a room she didn't recognise. This was not her room. This was not her house. This was not Luke's apartment. She went to lift her head up, but the pain that seared through it was too unbearable.
"Morning Lor..." a husky voice whispered in her ear.
She turned her head cautiously, looking back to see who it was that was talking to her. It wasn't Luke, she knew that for sure. There was only one person she knew who called her Lor...
"Christopher..?" she asked groggily. She looked up at him, his eyes staring at her intently.
"How are you feeling this morning...?" he asked soothingly, touching her face with his fingers.
"What are you..." Lorelei sat up quickly, pushing his hands off her. She pulled the sheets up around her, self-consciously noticing that she was topless. "What the hell am I doing here Chris?"
"You don't remember?" he asked, a little taken back.
She shook her head no, and she could feel her eyes burning, stinging as they began to fill with tears.
"You rang me last night from that pub. You said you'd had a major fight with Luke. You weren't too far away from here, so i took a cab...and when i got there you were really smashed. You told me you needed someone to talk to. A place to crash for a while...So I drove you and your car back here."
Lorelai felt her entire stomach flip as she heard him mention Luke. Luke...she had a fight with Luke...and now she was in bed with Christopher. She instantly felt ashamed as she remembered that she didn't have a shirt on. What was she thinking? Her stomach flipped again, but this time it was last nights alcohol.
"Bathroom?" she asked him, and he pointed to a door on her left.
She got up gingerly, walked in and shut the door behind her. She splashed some water on her face, but it did nothing. She took one look at her reflection in the mirror, before she threw up into the sink.
A few moments later she could here Chris tapping lightly on the door.
"Lorelai...are you alright?"
When he got no answer, he opened the door slowly. He found her sitting on the floor of the bathroom, her arms wrapped tightly around herself. She was shivering and crying softly.
"Shh...it's going to be ok..." he said, dropping to the floor and putting his hands on her bare shoulders.
"Come on, your freezing" he said, feeling the coldness of her skin against his hands. "Come on Lor...hop off the floor."
He took her hands and pulled her up so she was standing. She immediately took her hands back and wrapped her arms protectively around her breasts.
"Are you ok?" he asked again.
She shrugged, her eyes beginning to water all over again.
"Why don't you go back to bed huh? Your exhausted, and your sick. Go and get some more rest."
She followed him back to the bedroom in a daze, and hopped back into his bed. He grabbed one of his t-shirts off the floor and to put on her. She lifted her arms obediently. He gently laid her down and pulled the covers tightly around her.
"I'm going to get you some water and a aspirin ok?" he said softly.
She nodded her head, relaxing back into the pillows a bit.
When he came back with the water, she had already passed out again. He left the water and the aspirin bottle next to her, watching her as she slept peacefully. He kissed the top of her head lovingly, before going to get him self some breakfast.
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